Yep. Yep. The 2012 Victory Mix

Here’s what, 2012 is about to rock your face off. “Yep. Yep.” is a mix I put together for you and your steady progression toward victory. Leave us your 2012 song recs in comments. Cheers to a new year, my friends.

(I mostly live on Spotify now, so here’s the Yep. Yep. Mix over there, if you like it like that. The one below is from Rdio, which lets me embed the player with song previews.)

Maybe you need some old school punk in there. “Oh Bondage Up Yours” by the X-Ray Spex? Heck. That’s awesome.

On the flip, I always find Bon Iver’s “Holocene” to be so affirming. When he sings “I was not magnificent” — that’s comforting to me, to think that in the grand scheme of things, I am such a small part of it all. And the universe is so large and grand and I exist within it. And —

The Mountain Goats’ “This Year” was my anthem from Dec 2008 to Dec 2009. Hearing it brings me back to the worst time in my life, in a good peaceful way. It’s cathartic to see how far I have come from my life’s most painful moment.